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Sunday, April 1, 2012

In the development of our musical "Roofless," the narrator "Tella" has gone thru many incarnations. In every case, we've always pictured him in an ancient ceremonial hoodie lined with the fur of a sacrificed animal.

As you can see in this concept art for our musical
theatre joint “Roofless,” we explore & twist many archetypes, stereotypes
and clichés throughout the course of our show. The recent “Hoodie awareness” thing that is sweeping the
country got me thinking about our use of hoodies in “Roofless” and other works
we create. We have
characters who try their hardest to appear thuggish…hoodie. We have characters hiding behind the façade
of in-control-hardassness when they feel insecure…hoodie. On the other end of the spectrum, when
we wanted to create an all-knowing spirit being (in the form of a DJ of course.
lol) as narrator we gravitated towards the historic image of an educated, holy
man who is very aware of his place in the universe i.e. a monk, scribe, griot,
shaman, rabbi, etc. Yeah…hoodie. – Its always dangerous to try and
judge what lies beneath something that has been covered…or even to assume why
it has been covered.

The reasons for covering the head can range from
fear, evil intent & insecurity to piety, reverence &
self-awareness. Or hell, it could
just be raining.

As creators of art, we feel the need to say, “let’s
all take a deep breath and take the time necessary to explore what’s underneath
what we see on the surface…before any more fatal shots are fired in this
country.”

Oops. Has it been 2 months since our last post?!!! oh my. For DAILY whatnots & blabber from us, check out our facebook page. Facebook.com/LoJoWerkz. We share lots of vids and pics of friends whose work we follow and respect - from the worlds of Street Dance, Musical Theatre, Stage, Film, TV, Recording, News and Current Event bloggery. At some point we may combine our various media pages and post the same things everywhere, but for now we've decided to devote this LoJoWerkz blog exclusively to info about our work... not so much out of narcissism, but as a way of keeping some order ...some method to our moddness.

We are deep in development on our 2012/2013 projects and will soon have some wavyesque items to post about these hushy-hush projects.